All La Mesa Blog Posts Tagged 'La Mesa business' (31)

LA MESA -- On a cold morning -- the kind that tries the souls of we delicate Californians -- there were still signs that this bitter winter will give way to spring. At Cosmos Cafe, Ari Bejar, the proprietor, could be seen installing new umbrellas for his outdoor cafe…

LA MESA -- The sight of scaffolding and work crews in La Mesa Village was a sign of some spring cleanup for a couple of the older buildings in the city. Both projects, at the corner of La Mesa Boulevard and Nebo (the city's first commercial building)…

LA MESA -- The Ralphs Market, a food anchor for many in the La Mesa's eastern neighborhoods, will be closing. Employees at the store, which shares a parking lot with ToysRUs, were told the store is slated to close Feb. 1 because its sales were performing…

LA MESA -- Good news for patrons of the popular La Mesa Village restaurant, Swami's. Workers are currently putting on the finishing touches and will soon break through the wall to expand the restaurant by more than 60 seats.

There are a few words such as "fairness" that most of us agree describe proper behavior. It feels good to behave fairly. More than good, being fair even makes us feel a little superior to those who don't think and behave as fairly as we do. Sometimes we go so far as to try to impose our feelings of fairness on those other, less enlightened, people among us. That is what a group of Fair Trade zealots, abetted by the Mayor, is trying to do in La…